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Amy Klobuchar: “The Republicans put $75 billion into ICE.”

Featuring: Amy Klobuchar, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Minnesota

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Trump is making us 'less safe': Sen. Klobuchar on why she's running for Minnesota governor

Published | Video Starts at 03:16

And whether he meant it or not, I don't know. But people want to have safe communities. And instead of putting this funding into local law enforcement, this summer, with that big, beautiful bill, The Republicans put $75 billion into ICE. That funding could have gone to local law enforcement to help keep people safe. And that's one of the things that I think you see the Minneapolis police chief and a lot of our other police chiefs, actually, throughout our state have said. (03:16–03:21)

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Asserts that Republicans allocated $75 billion to ICE.

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